Dominik Hetjens

Research Areas

Language & Identity, War Correspondences, Gender-Sensitive Language, Historical Sociolinguistics, Linguistic Didactics, Applied Linguistics, Digital Humanities.

Bio

Dominik Hetjens joins Yale’s German Department as an exchange visitor in 2023. A graduate of Heidelberg University, he has worked as a lecturer and research associate at TU Dresden, University of Mumbai and Heidelberg University. Among his research interests are various relationships between language and identity, including national and gender identities. He has worked on a range of projects in historical sociolinguistics and digital humanities, exploring ways to closely intertwine academic linguistic teaching and research using digital resources, participatory approaches and citizen science. Most recently, he has developed virtual international seminars on missionary linguistics and networks of knowledge in the 18th and 19th century.

One of his main interests is the study of historical war correspondences from various times and social groups in an effort to help creating a history of the German language “from below”.

Dominik Hetjens is a member of the Association for German Language History, for which he has co-edited the volume “Historische Morphosyntax”. He is currently preparing a study on gender-sensitive language.

Highlighted Publications

(2023) Historische Morphosyntax (Jahrbuch für Germanistische Sprachgeschichte 14). Berlin: De Gruyter (co-edited with Alexander Lasch and Kerstin Roth).

(27.07.2023) Geschlechtersensible Sprache, Stellenanzeigen und Online-Interaktionen. Presentation at the consulting firm LUB in Mannheim.

(2023) Transkriptionsrichtlinien, Hochschuldidaktik und Arbeitsteilige Erschließungsprozesse – Erfahrungen aus der Zusammenarbeit von Germanistischem Institut und Universitätsbibliothek. In: Stört, Diana / Schuster, Franziska / Hermannstädter, Anita: Partizipative Transkriptionsprojekte in Museen, Archiven und Bibliotheken. Berlin: Museum für Naturkunde, S. 34–38. https://doi.org/10.7479/szm4-fs62.

(2022) Rezeption ins Zentrum stellen. Überlegungen zur Rolle von Sprachgeschichte und Metakognition im Deutschunterricht. In: Meier, Jörg (Hg.): Sprachgeschichte und Bildung. (Jahrbuch für Germanistische Sprachgeschichte 13). Berlin: De Gruyter, S. 20–30. https://doi.org/10.1515/jbgsg-2022-0009.

(2022) Virtuelle Exkursion Kleinwelka. In: Lessons Learned II. https://doi.org/10.25369/ll.v2i1.39 (with Alexander Lasch, Marlene Rummel & Robert Schuppe).